The traffic generated by automated "bots" (computer programs) is tremendous and can cause serious performance issues. This is primarily due to the large number of bots that exist on the Internet and the frequency with which they impact the same website, over and over. "According to statistics released by Symantec, an average of 57,000 types of bots were observed per day over the first six months of 2006. During that period, the anti-virus vendor discovered 4.7 million distinct computers being actively used in botnets." Mecca Hosting uses a proprietary system to detect and block the vast majority of bad bots. We do allow hundreds of known good bots, such as search engines, optimization tools, copyright protection, and site monitoring bots; just to name a few. This system prevents bots from spamming blogs, guestbooks, and online forums with hundreds and even thousands of advertisements.		The ability to accurately detect bots and block them is very sophisticated; it is something that most hosting companies are not capable of doing. However, this capability is critically important to ensure that your website always responds rapidly. There are millions of bots on the Internet, which use a large amount of the important bandwidth for your website. "According to statistics released by Symantec, an average of 57,000 types of bots were observed per day over the first six months of 2006."

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